Friedrich Wilhelm Schultz (3 January 1804 – 30 December 1876) was a German

pharmacist A pharmacist, also known as a chemist (Commonwealth English) or a druggist (North American and, archaically, Commonwealth English), is a healthcare professional who prepares, controls and distributes medicines and provides advice and instructi ...

and

botanist Botany, also called , plant biology or phytology, is the science of plant life and a branch of biology. A botanist, plant scientist or phytologist is a scientist who specialises in this field. The term "botany" comes from the Ancient Greek wo ...

who was a native of

Zweibrücken Zweibrücken (; french: Deux-Ponts, ; Palatinate German: ''Zweebrigge'', ; literally translated as "Two Bridges") is a town in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, on the Schwarzbach river. Name The name ''Zweibrücken'' means 'two bridges'; olde ...

. He initially learned the pharmacy profession at his father's store in Zweibrücken. In 1827 be began studies in

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, later performing post-doctoral work in

Tübingen Tübingen (, , Swabian: ''Dibenga'') is a traditional university city in central Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is situated south of the state capital, Stuttgart, and developed on both sides of the Neckar and Ammer rivers. about one in thr ...

. In 1832 he became owner of a pharmacy in Bitsch, and in 1853 relocated to Weissenburg. Schultz was a specialist regarding the botanical family

Orobanchaceae Orobanchaceae, the broomrapes, is a family of mostly parasitic plants of the order Lamiales, with about 90 genera and more than 2000 species. Many of these genera (e.g., ''Pedicularis'', ''Rhinanthus'', ''Striga'') were formerly included in the ...

. One of his better known publications was a book on Palatinate flora called ''Flora der Pfalz''. With

Paul Constant Billot Paul Constant Billot (12 March 1796 – 19 April 1863) was a French botanist born in Rambervillers. He studied at the University of Strasbourg, subsequently leaving school due to illness. From 1830 he worked as a civil servant (conductor of ''pont ...

(1796-1863), he was co-author of ''Archives de la flore de France et d’Allemagne''.WorldCat Titles
Archives de la Flore de France et d’Allemagne In 1840 with his brother, Carl Heinrich Schultz (1805-1867), et al., he founded the scientific society POLLICHIA, a group specializing in nature studies of the

Rheinland-Pfalz Rhineland-Palatinate ( , ; german: link=no, Rheinland-Pfalz ; lb, Rheinland-Pfalz ; pfl, Rhoilond-Palz) is a western state of Germany. It covers and has about 4.05 million residents. It is the ninth largest and sixth most populous of the ...

region.

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* ''Parts of this article are based on a translation of an article from the German Wikipedia'', namely:

Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie ''Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie'' (ADB, german: Universal German Biography) is one of the most important and comprehensive biographical reference works in the German language. It was published by the Historical Commission of the Bavarian Aca ...

, ADB: Schultz, Friedrich Wilhelm.
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German pharmacists 1804 births 1876 deaths People from the Palatinate (region) People from Zweibrücken 19th-century German botanists {{Germany-botanist-stub